AI Business Systems Developer

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is a premier law firm with market-leading practices, a global perspective, and strong New York roots. Our clients look to us for excellence, intensity, and creativity in solving complex legal challenges. We believe in hiring talented and dedicated individuals who share our values of collaboration, innovation, and client service.

We are seeking an AI Business Systems Developer to join our AI Business Systems team within the Information Services department. The ideal candidate has strong coding practices and hands‑on experience designing, developing, and deploying AI‑driven solutions. This role reports to the firm’s Head of AI Business Systems.

• Design, develop, and maintain ASP.NET MVC web applications and modules, emphasizing AI‑driven functionality and integrations.
• Design, develop, and maintain standalone worker processes, build on Microsoft stack and leveraging traditional and AI means to perform autonomous tasks.
• Define and standardize agentic development practices, including Skills, MCP servers, frameworks and agent configuration files (e.g., AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md), to ensure consistency and scalability.
• Maintain and expand the firm’s on‑premises AI GPU infrastructure to support local model inference through Ollama.
• Assist in evaluating new technology, especially in the AI‑assisted space.

• Providing ideas for improvement to existing company coding standards.
• Participating in code review meetings and other opportunities for knowledge sharing.
• Collaborate with users and cross‑functional teams to troubleshoot issues and share lessons learned.
• Working with outside vendors as appropriate, including software vendors, consultants, integrators, etc.
• Providing regular status updates to the supervisor and project team.

• Experience with local model inference platforms (Ollama, vLLM, LM Studio, etc.), including parameter tuning, context window optimization, quantization selection, performance benchmarking, and troubleshooting inference workloads.
• Experience using OpenAI APIs.
• Experience designing and implementing evaluation pipelines for production AI applications.
• Experience with Codex/Claude Code/Open Code.
• Experience developing and deploying custom MCP servers with Microsoft Entra n, including authentication flows, authorization policies, token validation, and secure service‑to‑service communication.
• Experience using Skills.
• Experience building Agents.
• Experience with Azure.
• Degree in Computer Science or related course of study from a major college program; OR degree in another field, supplemented with additional job experience and/or non‑degree courses in computer systems studies.

• Experience in the legal industry.
• Experience with iManage Cloud API, Power Shell, Salesforce, SharePoint, Azure Dev Ops, Aderant, Workday.

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Human Resources

John Ferrigno

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran or any other legally protected category in accordance with U.S. law.